Occasional writes from the studio — how products were built, decisions we made, and things worth sharing with other makers.
StayDesk needed to work on hotel desktops in Indian hill stations with unreliable internet. Here's how we designed for offline-first from day one — local SQLite, signed installers, and cryptographic per-device activation.
Read article →Serving Indian customers means getting GST invoices, order verification, and license issuance right in a single payment flow. We break down the exact Functions/API patterns we use across our catalog.
Read article →SaaS subscription fatigue is real in India. For our desktop products — StayDesk, VenueDesk, and STMD Entry — we chose perpetual per-device licensing with yearly update plans. Here's the reasoning and the tradeoffs.
Read article →Our Jewelry B2B platform needed per-buyer-group pricing, BIS hallmark verification, KYC seller onboarding, and AML-aware workflows — all on Next.js 15, Stripe Connect, and Algolia. The full design walkthrough.
Read article →Vantage (our field-ops SaaS) is a Turborepo monorepo with a Next.js dashboard, React Native Expo app, and Cloudflare Workers — all sharing types and validation. The workspace setup we settled on after a lot of iteration.
Read article →Core Web Vitals, Cloudflare CDN, Supabase RLS, structured data, sitemap generation, and a Razorpay checkout that actually passes on Indian carrier networks. Everything we do by default on every storefront we ship.
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